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Faster Broadband for East Riding of Yorkshire
Monday 16 September 2013 09:58:00 by
Andrew Ferguson

Friday afternoon saw another council sign its BDUK contract, but unusually
the news only appeared on the councils own broadband website sometime after the local press had ran the story and
the BT website still has to add news of the contract signing.

Those who live and work in the East Riding of Yorkshire have joined the
majority of the country by now having signed their BDUK contract with BT and
while this is good news for the rather precise 42,734 premises that will
benefit from high-speed broadband. The project appears to be larger than this
number of premises as there is talk of ensuring everyone gets speeds of 2 Mbps
or faster, so it is possible the 42,000 figure is really referring to the
number who will get speeds of faster than 24 Mbps (i.e. UK definition of
super-fast)

The project involves some European Regional Development Funding (ERDF) which
usually is limited in its use to ensuring businesses see significant
improvements, the council was allocated £5,570,000 from the BDUK fund and BT is
contributing £4m to the project which has a completion date of December
2015.

The precise technology mix is unknown, but a largely FTTC build, with some
native FTTP (i.e. packages from 40 Mbps through to 330 Mbps available) deployed
and then the promise of Fibre on Demand (330 Mbps) for those willing to pay the
install fee in areas with FTTC.